Day 2 , Irvine Surveys continue…

With schools on holiday today, we were accompanied by a couple of youngsters keen to see what fish we found. The day started in Galston at the road bridge at the bottom of Cessnock Castle Woods on the Burn Anne. This site has been fished before giving total of 30...

Upper Irvine Surveys commence

Gordon and I headed to Hurlford this morning to meet up with several volunteers from Hurlford AC, eager to see what we found on their stretches of water today. As I hadn’t really surveyed any sites since 2009, I was keen too and I wasn’t disappointed with...

Loch Doon area surveys

Loch Doon area today proved interesting. It’s been a while since I was last up Carrick Lane and the White Spout and neither Goron nor Struan had fished them before so a really worthwhile day. The White Spout site was last fished in 2009 and had salmon and trout...

More good news from the Ayr catchment

We have just about completed our Board commitments on the Ayr for 2014 electrofishing season but following last night’s Board meeting, I headed back to the upper catchment to look at a couple of sites where we will be gravel cleaning later this year in an effort...

Good news at last from the Ayr

We don’t often report good news about fish stocks on the Ayr but I’m pleased to say we can today. Well in fact it’s not the Ayr but the Ponesk Burn in the upper Ayr catchment. This burn was moved to allow coal to be extracted from below it in 2010....